Lynx Spider Peucetia margaritata Hogg, 1914
Fauna Portal species: 265
Peucetia margaritata male, dorsal (abdomen twisted) (HBI N29455-15; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2022)
Fauna Portal Image No. 3170Diagnosis
In here unpublished thesis, Grimshaw (1991) could not find morphological diferences between the type females of P. margaritata described from the Montebello Islands (WA) and P. albescens L. Koch, 1878 described from Queensland. Further investigation of mature males from both states may therefore show these species to be the same.
Linnean Syntype(s)
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1991): Revision of the Oxyopidae (Araneae: Arachnida) of Australia. M.Sc. Thesis. University of Queensland, Brisbane.
(1914): Spiders from the Montebello Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 84: 69 - 92